Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv prt] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She entered the theme room , which was decked out to look like the great hall of a medieval castle . |
| 2 | On Mondays the wash was hung out to dry on the clotheslines at the end of the kitchen-garden nearest to the house . |
| 3 | In January 1928 he was invited back to speak at the Cambridge Union , on the motion that the Church of England ought to be disestablished . |
| 4 | If she misbehaved , she was packed off to sleep in the old people 's home in another part of the building — a terrifying prospect for a girl with such a vivid imagination . |
| 5 | ‘ Robert had just taken over the Seconds , but was called back to play in the first team . |
| 6 | ‘ What about Saturday , the following night , when Matthew was called out to see to the lights at Morvyl — did you hear him going or coming back ? ’ |
| 7 | As early as 1985 the Better Health Commission was set up to report on the current health status of the Australian population and to identify underlying health problems and strategies for dealing with them . |
| 8 | Approximately 50 years ago , the Metropolitan Police Fraud Squad was set up to deal with the then growing incidence of company fraud . |
| 9 | IBM and Fiat Engineering were invited to participate and in 1987 the interdisciplinary Neapolis project was set up to focus on the vast archaeological site of Pompeii . |
| 10 | According the Wellcome the study was set up to look at the effect of acyclovir against cytomegalovirus , a type of herpes virus , and was stopped after no difference was found in frequency of CMV disease between patients taking acyclovir and those taking a placebo . |
| 11 | I was allowed up to chatter with the older men about the good old days on Le Manche , when my grandfather had not only held serious philosophical and religious conversation with les pecheures over his loud hailer , but had also been in to Boulogne harbour as thanksgiving for a market or two in Hastings at needy times . |
| 12 | ‘ In the primary-school playground , of course , when I was singled out to stand in the centre of a ring while a dozen sweet-faced little girls danced round me chanting ‘ Shannon 's dad 's a robber . ’ ' |
| 13 | Anyway things got quite hot and eventually one of the guides was sent over to talk to the Indians and the word came back that they would n't share their camp with us anyway , which is quite funny I suppose . |